Lebanon News

Lessons learned and applied

Among lessons that local businesses have learned and are putting into practice are: Get a plan. Officials with several Midstate companies that do business along the coast say they are offering training and providing educational materials for employees in hurricane-prone …

Lessons learned and applied

Among lessons that local businesses have learned and are putting into practice are: Get a plan. Officials with several Midstate companies that do business along the coast say they are offering training and providing educational materials for employees in hurricane-prone …

Tenn. Businesses Protect Coastal Operations from Storms

It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville, Tenn. headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast two summers ago. This summer, though, Dan Hunter has …

2007 Property/Casualty State Specialist Insurers

1 Brickstreet Mutual Insurance Co. WV 765,963 2 Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 743,095 3 Old American Cty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 491,641 4 SAIF Corp. OR 449,794 5 Universal Property & Casualty Insurance FL 371,755 6 Physicians Reciprocal …

Nor’easter Damage to Public Property in Maine Nears $30 Million

Mainers like to boast that they live in the nation’s most heavily forested state, but residents paid a heavy price for that distinction when a deadly nor’easter whipped the coast with winds gusting to 81 mph. Thousands of those trees …

N.H., Maine Still Dealing with Flooding, Power Outages, Washed-Out Roads

Rain continued falling on much of New Hampshire late Wednesday, keeping some schools closed and lengthening the morning commute for drivers detouring around washed-out roads. Thousands of homes and businesses still had no power, and the state’s largest utility, Public …

Cracker Barrel Restaurant Chain Sues Insurers Over Harassment Claims

Restaurant chain Cracker Barrel is suing two of its insurance carriers, claiming they did not reimburse the company after it settled sexual and racial harassment claims for $2 million. The lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Nashville …

New Wholesale Broker, Camford National, Opens in N.J.

Lebanon, N.J.-based Camford National Insurance Brokers LLC, has opened as a specialty lines wholesale insurance brokerage serving property/casualty agents and brokers both nationally and internationally. Camford National will specialize in serving excess & surplus lines and industries with hard-to-place risks. …

It Figures

$1 million The punitive damages amount to be lodged against State Farm after the federal judge overseeing the Mississippi Katrina claims cases reduced a recent $2.5 million jury award. U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter ruled that a punitive damage award …

Figures

$1 million The punitive damages amount to be lodged against State Farm after the federal judge overseeing the Mississippi Katrina claims cases reduced a recent $2.5 million jury award. U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter ruled that a punitive damage award …